Wednesday 3 October 2012

New Club Forum

Minty fresh Forum for all you hobbyists to share your adventures and exploits all things wargaming and more. All event information and your local Hobby news in Auckland and around NZ as well as abroad. 

http://www.aucklandcityguard.com/index.php 

Easy to register and we'll get you up and running quick smart. Look forward to seeing you there and everyone is welcome.


Sunday 30 September 2012

Auckland WHFB 500 Mini Tournament

Auckland's own 500pt WHFB mini Tournament = Fun hammer FTW!

Venue: Auckland City Guard Club, Freemans Bay Community Centre.

When: Sunday 28th October Starting 1pm.  Entry: $10 for 3 rounds of games

Prizes: 1st, 2nd & 3rd.

Contact: whfbcityguard@gmail.com


Borrowing the idea from Ben Curry of Bad_Dice fame, this will be a fun event capped at 20 players. It will be 3 45min rounds held on a normal club Sunday. All Enquires to James:  whfbcityguard@gmail.com


Which General will prevail in 2012...

Auckland City Guard Tank Aces League


Tank Aces League starting soon.

If you interested in taking part please contact guardcon2012@hotmail.com

Here's a couple of great introduction Videos on designing a Tank Aces force with your army.

http://www.beastsofwar.com/flames-of-war/matts-500pt-german-tank-aces-list-flames-war/

http://www.beastsofwar.com/flames-of-war/500pt-russian-tank-aces-list-flames-war/


There's still a few places left so grab your Tank Aces pin today.
email your interest to guardcon2012@hotmail.com

Auckland WH40K Combat Patrol 500pts


Coming soon...


Lead your Squad to victory!!!

Equinox is coming...

Equinox 2013 Tournament
16th & 17th March.
Held at Freemans Bay Community Centre
      
      Warhammer Fantasy     --        Warhammer 40K
        2400pts, 6 Games over 2days.          1750pts, 6 Missions, over 2days

Early registrations, $40 until the 20th of Oct.
Don’t miss out on one of the biggest tournaments in NZ,
register now!
                                                          

Tuesday 24 July 2012

Pizza & Wargaming

This Weekend is Pizza & Wargames at the Club.

All welcome so bring your toys and an Appetite.
Sunday 29th of July 2012.


Freemans Bay Community Centre,
52 Hepburn st,
Ponsonby.

Entry $5, Pizza and some drinks provided.

Contact: guardcon2012@hotmail.com for details.

Thursday 28 June 2012

Wargaming for Charity

What looked to be a bit of a slow start to CanOpener 2012 resolved into a relaxing and enjoyable day of gaming.
The numbers were a bit low, but the results of the day were really rewarding. With every player walking away with something from the event, whether it be a podium prize, a spot prize or a feeling of just having had a really good day at the Auckland City Guard Club. We had in our midst a very welcome contingent of board gamers, amongst them a couple of familiar faces, who it was good to see.


Another welcome addition to the event was the representation from the Auckland City Mission. James was a great sport. He was very intrigued by the whole gaming thing. I introduced him to Fantasy, and in true City Guard spirit, he whooped me Smiley. James then joined in with the boardgamers
and afterwards had a game of FOW. I get the impression that we may have a new member soon Wink
I expect the other TO’s will like to comment on their games, but instead of stealing their thunder, I will just mention a couple of the Fantasy Highlights.
First place, after a bit of an absence from the club, was Nick (Captain Softscores), 2nd place to Logan (First Tournament) , 3rd place Graeme (Nerdymen).
Steve was there with Flames of War. He umpired a game for 4 newbies, Daryl (Big D) took out first place there. I got a chance to join in and even I had some successes with the game, getting Daryl to roll dice for me probably helped Smiley.
I need to mention a word of thanks here:
Thank you to Battle front miniatures, who sent over a large box of cans, as well as some very generous prizes. 
Thank you to Slave to Painting, who sent in a whole heap of spot prizes, which were scattered between the games appropriately. I know Aaron Cue appreciated his spot prize, as we have been talking recently about Mantic models.
Thank you to my wife, for running the kitchen (Archenemy will be the next to benefit from my wife’s cooking).
And last, but not least, thank you to all the gamers, who made set-up and pack up an enjoyable part of the event.
Can tally: 500 cans to The Auckland City Mission. Target for next year: 1000?
Direct Cash donation to The Auckland City Mission: $135


Derick.

Thursday 21 June 2012

Guardsman Trophy WHFB

Nice and chilly outside means its time for some juicey games of warham! The ACG's winter league is back with us again and is a great warm up for the up and coming big club convention GuardCon 2012.

Contested over 6 games where you get a whole three months before GuardCon to play and get the results to us. The first four rounds can be played at any location with GuardCon restrictions of course. With no sports or painting you're required to play like gentlemen and scholars. Entry is $5 and more details when you express your interest to wouster7@hotmail.com. It's a nice and cruisey bunch of games and will be a great chance to test some army builds and to meet some new and old warhammer players.


The spoils for the Champion

Monday 18 June 2012

CanOpener and BoardGames

Another excellent charity event for The City Mission this year which we hold annually at the Club and the convention is "CanOpener". With all proceeds and Cans of food donated by all attending going towards the needy it's a event you should be getting out ya door and be supporting. Not to worry it's on again around the same time next year. This year we saw some great competitors and some good prizes from our sponsors too. Honorary mention especially to "Slave to Painting", " Battle Front Miniatures", & Mister Minute.

Just some of the great supporters and winners at the event.

We had some brilliant ranges of Board Games at the event too and SchilMil Games was gracious in attending and brought their NZ new designed game to the venue for us to try out. Really quick to learn and designed for the whole family it looks like it will do very well and "Komodo", is available at all your games stockists.


One of my favourites was also there on the weekend and it was great to break it out and have a 5 player game of it. Quick to play and a classic German board game of the genre. I highly recommend it and with a hot cup of coffee and a few biscuits this is a great winter staple.


CanOpener finishes for another year and next on the calendar is GuardCon Here

Sunday 17 June 2012

Auckland City Guard AGM 2012

Auckland City Guard 
Annual General Meeting 
2012 

Held on: Sunday the 1st of July 2012
Venue and Time: TBA, all paid members of the 2012-2013 year are invited and will be notified via email.

All enquiries and nominations to guardcon2012@hotmail.com or aucklandcityguard@gmail.com

Important: All nominations must be made 2 days before the date of the AGM


Thursday 10 May 2012

CanOpener 2012

Howdy folks! It's a little bit short notice, but we really wanted to put something up on here about Canopener, our annual charity and all round fun-times event. All club members and non-club members welcome. Come join in the fun! 

CanOpener 2012
Saturday June 16th, 8am - 6pm. 

There will be Cafe at the venue – all profits will go towards the City Mission; and a raffle with some really great prizes 

Warhammer 40K,
Warhammer Fantasy, 
Napoleonics – Sounds of Drums and shakos 
Heroclix 
Flames of War 
Warmachine 

All in the name of charity.

James from the Auckland City Mission will be presenting the podium prizes at the end of the day. 
So bring your dice, bring your cans and put your Game Face on! 

For more details, pop on by the forums (this thread) or email us.

Tuesday 8 May 2012

GuardCon 2012


GuardCon 2012
Hosted by the Auckland City Guard Club:
September this year.


Warhammer Fantasy Battle, Warhammer 40K Doubles, Lord of the Rings, Blood Bowl and much more.

Wednesday 18 April 2012

Equinox 2012 Results


Equinox Tournament WFB Results

Brilliant weekend and really proud to have hosted all the fine wargamers that made this the biggest tournament by far I've been involved in hosting. Although we have a big base of wargamers in Auckland the great response from the community all around the country made this tournament the big success that it was. A big thank you goes out to those of you who flew or travelled those extra miles to making the great atmosphere that a big tournament makes. So without further delay here is the results.


Name
Army
Paint
Total
Tie Break
Adj Battle
Total Overall
1
Pete Dunn
Ogr
15
87
76.125
91.125
2
Ross Hiller- Jones
WoC
14
81
70.875
84.875
3
Tim Joss
TK
15
77
67.375
82.375
4
Rob Sadler
Emp
15
76
0.1
66.5
81.6
5
Peter Williamson
TK
15
76
66.5
81.5
6
Raymond Dick
Beasts
15
75
0.1
65.625
80.725
7
Dan Butler
Skaven
15
75
65.625
80.625
8
James Page
DE
15
73
63.875
78.875
9
John Mathews
Emp
15
72
63
78
10
Al Raynor
WoC
15
71
62.125
77.125
11
John Willenbruch
Brets
14
72
63
77
12
Thom V
Dwf
15
68
0.1
59.5
74.6
13
Reid Pittams
DE
15
68
59.5
74.5
14
Henry Poor
WE
14
69
60.375
74.375
15
Kyran Henry
Emp
15
67
58.625
73.625
16
Glen Tibbles
WoC
15
65
56.875
71.875
17
Neil Williamson
Brets
15
64
56
71
18
Rory Finnemore
Emp
15
63
0.1
55.125
70.225
19
Hamish Forbes
O&G
15
63
55.125
70.125
20
Antony Kitson
Dwf
15
59
0.1
51.625
66.725
21
Richard Barby
CD
15
59
51.625
66.625
22
Jeremy Brown
VC
10
64
56
66
23
James Brown
WE
14
59
51.625
65.625
24
Paul Clark
TK
14
58
50.75
64.75
25
Mike Vercoe
VC
15
56
0.1
49
64.1
26
Derick Williams
Skaven
15
56
49
64
27
Michael King
Liz
15
55
48.125
63.125
28
Geoff Fletcher
Ogr
8
61
53.375
61.375
29
Paul Dalton
Ogr
5
63
0.1
55.125
60.225
30
Sam Peters
Brets
12
55
48.125
60.125
31
Basil Moskovis
VC
15
50
0.11
43.75
58.86
32
Patrick Crockett
WE
15
50
0.1
43.75
58.85
33
Michael Fenner
WoC
15
50
43.75
58.75
34
Noel Tobin
O&G
14
51
44.625
58.625
35
Graeme Fry
HE
15
47
41.125
56.125
36
Damon Quaid
WoC
15
42
36.75
51.75
37
Russ Simister
VC
15
40
35
50
38
Chris Ellis
TK
13
40
35
48
39
Darren Butler
O&G
15
36
31.5
46.5
40
Michael Stewart
Emp
12
39
34.125
46.125
41
Jake Griffiths
VC
12
36
31.5
43.5
42
Phil Petry
DE
15
32
28
43
43
Amy Tanabe
Ogr
15
26
22.75
37.75
44
Daniel Blomfield
O&G
8
5
4.375
12.375
45
Jorin Duncan
O&G
0
5
4.375
4.375
46
Jordan Rees
WoC
0
5
4.375
4.375
47
Antony Nobs
WoC
0
5
4.375
4.375
48
Aaron Cue
WoC
0
5
4.375
4.375

Best Sports: Glen Tibbles
Best Paint: Graeme Fry, can be found Here
Best Emerging Player: Michael Fenner

Well played to the veteran of the community Pete Dunn who showed that Ogres are the new black. A special mention has to go to Ross Hiller- Jones and Tim Joss, whom collected the other podiums for such a tight finish. The Podium finishers all played each other and with Pete beating Tim, Tim beating Ross and Ross beating Pete in their match ups, it proved there was very little in it duking it out at the top of the field. This is also the first tournament that I've had the pleasure of meeting Ross and it seems that Tauranga is going from strengths to strengths with a second place finish this time around.


Edit:

Strengths in NZ Wargaming:

With Wellington, Tauranga and Invercargill taking the podiums for the WFB tournament it bodes very well for the health of the hobby in NZ. Even though Auckland may boast the greatest population in terms of player base only one Aucklander managed a top ten finish in the tournament.

The tournament had well over 60 contestants interested in the 50 WFB spots in the competition, with late withdraws due to work or family reasons the tournament was reduced to 48. Further withdraws during the week meant that come tournament day there were contestants not participating that were on the tournament list. With this kind of response and no last minute timing conflicts I don't see why we can't steadily work towards my goal over the past year or so of developing the hobby and N.Z's wargaming participation. This being my last tournament as TO I'd like to thank all competitors and fellow organisers who have shared my common goal and volunteered their time to building the New Zealand tournament and wargaming scene. With the huge participation of all the systems at Equinox I'm sure you as the competitor will continue to support the guys who will be running tournaments in the future. The Next big tournament in Auckland will be Nicon and details can be found here Here.


Playing with Stats:

With Equinox hosting the largest 8th ed tournament in NZ it's great to see some of the internets not so fancied armies also sharing space with the top ten finishers. No Surprises with Ogres, WoC or Empire, but TK and Beasts the more unfancied cousins in the current edition of the game makes a surprise appearance in the top ten at Equinox. Tournament performance often comes down to List design and your overall performance rather than luck so I thought I'd look at some of the stats taking into account the 3 most recent tournaments in NZ. I've used the average Army placing and by eliminating the last result where I could to stabilise as much statistical bias due to small a sample size. This is what I got which makes for interesting reading.


Army Average Tournament Finish Average Batt Pts
Warriors 3 77.5
Lizardmen 3.5 78.5
Empire 4 84
Tomb Kings 4 76.5
Ogres 4 74.5
High Elves 4.5 74
Dark Elves 5 79.5
Skaven 5.5 75.5
Brettonians 6 80
Beasts 7 73.5
Daemons 7 66.5
Dwarves 9 71
Wood Elves 12 59


So statistically speaking in this country the top three armies are far removed from the big two countries of warhammer the UK & US. I would agree with the results some what as Warriors and Lizards tend to be able to get solid points in a tournament which they are favoured in and Empire if run right and maximise their shooting all six turns could very much also maximise their battle points. Lower on the table Wood Elves are still a good army but struggle to get maximum battle points due to the nature of the army and hence are not so good at tournament finishes.

Nb: Sample size is small and top 10 results were the only data used where able to minimise conflicting data. Statistical analysis is for snapshot trend only.